‘One Battle After Another,’ Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke among winners at 2025 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards: See the full list

Another awards show, another victory for One Battle After Another.

The quirky Warner Bros. film about ex-revolutionaries was the big winner at the 2025 Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) Awards on Sunday, earning trophies for Best Picture, Best Director for Paul Thomas Anderson, and Best Supporting Performance for Teyana Taylor. This comes on the heels of One Battle prevailing last week at the Gotham Awards, New York Film Critics Circle, and National Board of Review.

Throughout the day on Dec. 7, the L.A. critics slowly — and we mean slowly — rolled out the winners for its 51st annual kudos over the course of six hours, from 10 a.m. PT to 4 p.m. PT. (That's essentially the equivalent of two Avatar movies.)

The group's lead acting prizes went to Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I'd Kick You) and Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon), while Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value) and Taylor took home the supporting trophies. None of these were considered surprises, as all four champions are in Gold Derby's Top 5 for their respective Oscar categories.

Meditative drama Train Dreams won the first award of the day, for Best Cinematography. Next up was Best Music Score, which went to Sirāt, Spain's official selection for the Best International Feature Oscar. The craft categories continued with horror-musical Sinners winning Best Production Design, and sports dramedy Marty Supreme taking Best Film Editing.

Other awards were doled out to Jafar Panahi for It Was Just an Accident (Best Screenplay), My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (Best Documentary/Nonfiction Film), Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (Best Animated Film), and The Secret Agent (Best Film Not in the English Language).

LAFCA's categories mostly match up with the Oscars, though there are a few exceptions. In 2022, the L.A. critics eliminated the four traditional lead actor/actress and supporting actor/actress races. They now hand out two trophies for Best Lead Performance, and two for Best Supporting Performance, regardless of gender. The organization also has a single Best Screenplay category, whereas the Oscars honor both original and adapted scripts.

Over the past 50 years, LAFCA's Best Picture winner has matched with the Academy Awards 13 times: Anora (2024), Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), Parasite (2019), Moonlight (2016), Spotlight (2015), The Hurt Locker (2009), Schindler's List (1993), Unforgiven (1992), Amadeus (1984), Terms of Endearment (1983), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Rocky (1976), and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975).

Here is the full list of 2025 Los Angeles Film Critics Association winners (and runners-up):

BEST PICTURE
Winner: One Battle After Another
Runner-up: The Secret Agent

BEST DIRECTOR
Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another
Runner-up: Ryan Coogler for Sinners

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCES
Winners: Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, and Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon
Runners-up: Timothée Chalamet for Marty Supreme, and Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCES
Winners: Stellan Skarsgård for Sentimental Value, and Teyana Taylor for One Battle After Another
Runners-up: Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas for Sentimental Value, and Andrew Scott for Blue Moon

BEST SCREENPLAY
Winner: Jafar Panahi for It Was Just an Accident
Runner-up: Eva Victor for Sorry, Baby

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Winner: Adolpho Veloso for Train Dreams
Runner-up: Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Sinners

BEST FILM EDITING
Winner: Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie for Marty Supreme
Runner-up: Andy Jurgensen, One Battle After Another

BEST MUSIC SCORE
Winner: Kangding Ray for Sirāt
Runner-up: Ludwig Göransson, Sinners

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Winner: Hannah Beachler for Sinners
Runner-up: Tamara Deverell, Frankenstein

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Winner: Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Runner-up: KPop Demon Hunters

BEST DOCUMENTARY/NONFICTION FILM
Winner: My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow
Runner-up: The Perfect Neighbor

BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Winner: The Secret Agent
Runner-up: It Was Just an Accident

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In addition, LAFCA bestowed the Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Awards to Albert Serra's Afternoons of Solitude, and to Thom Andersen for his body of work. And they gave the New Generation honor to Eva Victor for Sorry, Baby.

This group of about 60 California reviewers were preceded in announcing their newest honorees by the New York Film Critics Circle, who chose One Battle After Another as Best Picture on Dec. 2. That movie also prevailed last week at the Gotham Awards and the National Board of Review, making it the rare contender to impress all four awards bodies. See what's next on the road to the Oscars.

Founded in 1975, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association is comprised of L.A.-based, professional film critics working in local media. Among those brand-name critics are The New Yorker's Justin Chang, Variety's Peter Debruge, Los Angeles Times' Amy Nicholson, and legendary critic Leonard Maltin. All told, there are 60 members in the group, with Robert Abele serving as president, Katie Walsh as vice president, Chang as secretary, and Annlee Ellingson as treasurer.